Hot Jobs
Hot Jobs: Boardwalk retailers
For the latest installment of our "Hot Jobs" series, we head to the Boardwalk in Ocean City, Maryland, where we talk to a pair of summer retailers.
Perry and Margaret Pillas (Marketplace)
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Kai Ryssdal: Remember summer vacations at the beach, maybe hanging out on the boardwalk? And those T-shirts your parents bought you? The one with goofy sayings on 'em or cats outlined in glitter? Well, that brings us to today's next installment of Hot Jobs.
The retail business can be tough. But it's much easier to take when you're selling T-shirts at the beach, and you're only doing it three months out of the year. Like this entrepreneurial couple in Ocean City, Maryland. Elizabeth Wynne Johnson helped us out with that report.
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From Hampton, NH, 07/21/2008
Enyoyed the story, think I will go to Ocean City and I'll stop in to see Margaret and Perry.
From Minneapolis, MN, 07/20/2008
I liked the music--it captured the history of the boardwalk. Can anyone tell me what it is?
07/19/2008
The show said to come to web site to see their beach front store and I expected to see the front, not just them. Ah well, wish them the best.
From Towson, MD, 07/19/2008
Creative thinking outside the box! I've always known there was a better way then nine to five - it gives me hope - I'm on my way to the beach!
From Balt., MD, 07/19/2008
I know these people and they work very hard. Their outlook is great. Of interest is all the personal things that they have gone thru and have kept their focus on providing a needed basic service to the beach and boardwalk community.
07/19/2008
Interesting content, but the incidental music is incredibly annoying, incongruous, distracting, and frankly obnoxious. Why?
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